A Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys

A Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys'A wonderful bitter sweet book, written with disarming simplicity' Esther Freud'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father. Working as a chorus girl, Anna drifts into the demi monde of Edwardian London. But there, dismayed by the unfamiliar cold and greyness, she is absolutely alone and unconsciously

are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde

Bursting with Carson's trademark wit

domestic violence

By doing this

but when the moon would disappear for a few nights each month

The Lost Words and The Old Ways

inspiring and lovely read about Ireland's shorelines: its places and spaces' - Professor Robert Devoy

Quinn’s senior team was hand-picked

ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates or with endless paths in deep

Fresh from the horrors of 1970s Belfast

and be true to himself

much-chronicled adventures in love